Bald men obey the rules

[rootbeer1]

So qbear and I tried out a new branch of our health club last night. The scene at the pool was odd – Jack in his required swim cap, patiently doing his Australian crawl … while in the lanes next to him, various women swam their laps, with their gigantic masses of Debra Messing-like hair trailing behind them, unfettered and free.

(No, it doesn’t make much sense – the top of Jack’s head is far less hairy than the rest of him.)

Comments

[carytown.livejournal.com]

So he's gonna have to get one of those kinky rubber suits?

[sydhart.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that wonderful imagery!

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Maybe because "icky boys" don't wash their hair?

This totally makes no sense. I would call the club's attention to this. If they require men to wear caps, but not women, that's sexual discrimination. (Depending upon how much trouble you feel like making.)

[rootbeer1.livejournal.com]

Nope, they post that bathing caps are required for all, but they don't enforce their own rules.

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

What club is this, and what exactly are the rules?

Is it just that the rules aren't enforced?

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

Ha! You just answered my post. I need to type faster.

[rootbeer1.livejournal.com]

It's Club One. I'd rather they didn't enforce the rules -- hair in the pool filter should be just part of the cost of doing business. But it does seem that men obey the rule more than women.

[redbackfur.livejournal.com]

Maybe it is for Jack's safety. So that he can't scratch his delicate bald head on the side of the pool??

[daved010.livejournal.com]

If they were smart they'd cross-breed pirahnas with electric clippers and unless them in to pool on the unsuspecting swimmers. Problem solved.

[shake-it-up.livejournal.com]

What health club is that? I never understood that. At my childhood Y, we had to swim naked, which seemed very undignified and "wrong" at age 7.

[rootbeer1.livejournal.com]

Club One. They began "requiring" bathing caps a few years ago.

I wouldn't mind swimming naked at a health club (no wet suits to worry about!) but only if it were all-male.